WEAR

An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Asst ND is afraid of ND. Won’t take your side if you’re correct. The EP is a lunatic fights and yells. All women management. HR won’t help you. Valerie Massey

Very low pay. Many have left, quit, or been fired. High turnover. Story choices are poor. Very little support especially if they don’t like you. Staff afraid of ND. Sinclair is a poor company to work for. They are cutting back in many areas

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

“The only person I have ever met that knows everything about everything and blames others for her mistakes” meet Sinclair owned WEAR ABC Channel 3 News Director Kimberly Wyatt. The ND and managers are completely unmotivated and unprofessional, which is why it’s a laughing stock across the market. I warn you, stay away from this place. The most important survival tactic was to get out as soon as I could. The newsroom has absolutely no guidance and is basically run by an understaffed group of college graduates. This news station is extremely understaffed, nearly a dozen employees have left under Wyatt's leadership, because everyone is miserable and wants to get out. It is not a place you feel comfortable at and you constantly feel like you are walking on eggshells everyday.

If Wyatt were not there then it would be a great working environment. Long-time anchors Bob Solarski and Sue Straughn were great to me. Bless their hearts with having to deal with such chaos on a daily basis.

I would never recommend this station to anyone. No one cares about you as an employee. The station is severely understaffed. No constructive criticism. You’ll be promised things that will NEVER happen.They hire people with no experience. Quantity over quality.

Why the GM keeps a ND around who belittles and lie to her employees, is a mystery to me. Maybe if she and her little “yes ma’am” minions were gone, the station’s morale would jump dramatically. Maybe, just maybe employees would stay there for more than 2-3 years and gain more viewers than the local newspaper.

Sexual Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Management is not respected or trusted because they have no news or ethical judgment. The news director, Kimberly Wyatt, is scatterbrained, unprofessional, and lacks basic leadership skills. The newsroom is always in a state of chaos. The newsroom is run by an inexperienced staff and operates like a small market. The producers and reporters are very green. They’re never given any guidance, direction or supervision. Their work is never adequately checked before it hits air. There’s no emphasis on real journalism, accuracy or enterprise storytelling. Content is driven by “clicks” and it’s a Sinclair station, which comes with its own set of problems. The toxic environment is further strained by an understaffed newsroom, and what little staff they do have is constantly walking on egg shells around the New Director. That’s why most everyone is miserable and frustrated all the time. Hence, the almost constant mass exodus of employees since Kimberly Wyatt’s arrival. There’s also a lot of petty gossip, backstabbing and retaliation in the newsroom. It's something that is encourage and cultivated from the top down.

Kimberly Wyatt sees what she wants to see and won’t hesitate to turn on you. She will lie and manipulate a situation so that the staff and individual employees take the fall for her screw ups or look like the “problem” when her superiors come down on her; which is often because she has absolutely no clue what she’s doing. She feels threatened and challenged by anyone who knows more than her, so she resorts to attacking, belittling and berating employees on a near daily basis. She always has something to prove and is constantly in a power struggle with the station’s longtime anchors, who are trying to keep the station afloat.

Racial Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, An Overall Toxic Work Environment

Employees that share the same race as News Director are given special treatment. For instance, 4pm producer does not carry enough experience to work in mid-level market, and makes constant mistakes. But is never disciplined for on-air mistakes. While another employee that works hard, makes few mistakes was written up for not going to a meeting before their shift. Gay employees are mocked to their faces. New Director hit an employee during a meeting for yawning.

It’s bad enough that Sinclair owns this station, but to have to deal with the constant stress of this station is excruciating. Anyone looking for a job here should find somewhere else.

This is a great station with lots of potential, it just never takes full-advantage opportunities to improve. Leadership is highly unorganized, with tension between anchors and news director.